Trees at TMII

Trees at TMII

From Media Indonesia

The trees planted by the representatives of Non-aligned countries at TMII (Beautiful Indonesia in Miniature Park) will be two years old on Sept. 1, 1994. When I visited the Friendship Park of the Non-aligned countries I was very pleased to see most of the trees have thrived. Representing Indonesia, on Sept. 1, 1992 President Soeharto planted a royal banyan tree. The white banyan was planted by Malaysian representative, green banyan (Brunei Darussalam), sengon (Congo), pete (Nigeria), buni (Nepal), sawo duren (Santa Lucia) and many others.

Some of the trees have even produced fruit such as maja hijau (Gabon), jambu mente (Oman). Other trees are in blossoms and look very nice.

However, I found that some of the original trees died and have been replaced with new ones and are still small in size. What is saddening is that some name boards of the trees have disappeared so that we could not recognize the countries that planted the trees. Representatives of certain Non-aligned countries may visit Indonesia some day and want to have a look at the trees that were planted by their representatives. They will be disappointed if they cannot find the names of their countries. In this context I would like to suggest that the government remedy this matter.

SUNARTO AS

Jakarta